Adjustable bathing-suit.



W. R. HEBER.

ADJUSTABLE BATHmG sum APPLICATION FlLEnD APR. 23, 1917.

Patented Jan. 22, 11918,.

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a R. HEBER, or BERKELEY, onLrro e rms, or RICHMOND, oaLrroRNrn iTENIA, ASSIGNOR T0 PRINCETON KNITTIN A CORPORATION OFCALIFORNIAJ ADJUSTABTLE JBATHING-SUIT.

`Speeiiication of Letters Patent.

Patented dan. aa, anni Application led April 23, 1917. Serial No. 163,829.

To all whom z't may concern: y

lBe it known that I, WILLIAM R.A HEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda'and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Bathing-Suits, of which the following is a speci- 'Ihis invention relates particularly to 'improvements in bathing suits, and especially that class of 'suits which is termed a singlepiece bathingsuit.

It consists in` the combination with the, body and leg portions of such a suit, of means for adjusting the suit to larger or Smaller perSOI1S.

It also comprises details ofv construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings',- in which-`.

Figure 1 is a front view oit the suit and its. attachment. n

`Fig. 2 is a separate fragment, showing the adjustable attachment. Y

In bathing establishments whereI it is customary to` furnish suits to all corners, it is often difficult to find a suit which exactly fits the bather; some suits being too large and others too small. It is the object of my invention to provide means for ittin a sin gle size of bathinglsuit to all the dl'erent figures to which it may be applied.

As shown in the drawings, A is the body portion of the suit vkand B the leg portions, these being all Woven in one piece, and they may have an' apron or outer portion C extending from the waist downwardly. Illhe suit is sleeveless' and thev upper portion `is formed with separate front and back memers a-a and has bands 2 extended from the upper edge of the back member adapted to pass over wthe shoulders after the suit has been drawn 'onto the body of the wearer.

- The side openings between the front and back members formarmholes. If the` person having the suit has along body the tend-V ency will be to make the-suit too short in the shoulders on account of the close'fit ,of 1- the'crotch seam, and if, on the other hand, the person is short the opposite effect will result vand the suit will be loose'and sloppy' inv every direction.

. In ordertoovercome this difliculty, I have shown straps 3 connected with the 'shoulder' portion, and the. front member ofthe. byA

lbeing open at. the top to the other of these buttonholes may be fixed while the remainder of the strap 3 is passed into the slot 4 and concealed within the front l of the garment. Buttons 6a are fixed within the front member a to which the inner ends of the strap 3 are secured. It is thus very easy to fit a garment of this description. The depth ofthe armholes is such that the front and back maybe turned down in opposits-directions and the body piece drawn up over the body with the crotch seam of the part B fitting closely. The back'` and :front are then brought together in their respective positions and the straps 3 brought over the shoulders and passed downward at the front until the particular buttonhole, which insures a good fit of the garment, can be attached to the button 6. The remainder ofthe strap, as before described, then passes into the slotted'opening 4 withinthe garment and is secured to the interior' button 6, thus yleaving it hidden from view and without exposing any loose ends to become entangled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isto the back and having button holes at their 'free end parts, the front face of the body piece having slots Vformed below the top of the body piece to receive the free end parts of the straps so as to enable the'latter to be engaged to the rear of thefront face of the body piece and be concealed thereby, and buttons on the front face of above and adjacent to the slots to receive the buttonholes of the straps to thereby hold the free ends of the latter in said slots of the front of the body piece. y

2. A bathing suit composed 'of ay body piece and integral trunks,V said body piece forma head opening and armholes,

'free end parts the front rface ofthe body piece having lslo y shoulder- Straps connected, lto the back and. having button holes at their tsj formed below the top of the body piece l Q n 1,254,59s

the body piece to receive the free end parts ceive one of the buttonholes of the parts of of the straps so as to enable the latter to be 'the straps which extend on the rear face of engaged to the rear of theiront face, of the the front of the body piece. body piece andbe concealedfithereby; buttons In testimony' whereof I have hereunto set 5 on the front face of the body piece` above and m A"hand in the presence of two subscribing 15 adjacent to the slots to receive the button W1tnesses. h oles of the straps to thereby hold the free WILLIAM R. HEBER. ends of the latter in. said slots of the front Witnesses: of the body piece, and buttons on the rear FRANK'LE B. WATERBURY 10 y face of the body piece below theslots to re- LEWIS S. HARRIS. 

